Reviews

A companion piece to Solefald’s somewhat grim, Scandinavian-flavored Kosmopolis Nord EP, World Metal: Kosmopolis Sud is a brightly colored, wickedly smart LP, with a diverse, rangy style that recalls the band’s pre-millennial classic Neonism while resisting the temptation to imitate it. Solefald uses extreme […]

The wait is over – SOLEFALD have, after four years of silence finally released their latest effort “Norrøn Livskunst”. One year ago, when I conducted the interview with Cornelius, he announced the album as the […]

This is no real “new” album but a re-release of the fist SOLEFALD-Demo “Jernlov” from 1996 as well as a compilation of several artists contributing their versions of SOLEFALD-songs from over a decade. Due to […]

Solefald followed the provocation of “Neonism” with the more streamlined and tougher sounding “Pills Against the Ageless Ills.” A concept album, it follows the tragicomic tale of the brothers Pornographer Cain and Philosopher Fuck after […]

Neonism was a radical departure from Solefald’s debut album. Gone were the eccentric symphonic metal arrangements and urbane pastoral pretensions, replaced with a frenetic pastiche, a black metal Mr. Bungle with an irreverent sense of humor […]

Solaris was a short-lived collaboration between the prolific Boris Doussy and Sebatien Rivet, surveying the verdant lands between metal, atmospheric music and goth rock, with a distinct knack for songwriting. Doussy has compared the work […]

The Sun, invincible and all-illuminating. Blood, the flowing life, and Truth or Fidelity, the prime ideals of Man. Two proud Danish extreme metal artists, the heathens Emil Brahe of death/doom metal outfit SOL and Trúa […]

Norway’s Duplicate Records interest in avant-garde metal releases is of course no news to any fan of the genre, reinforcing this extreme music with every album it puts out. But with their newest outcome, this […]

It has been quite a wait for the debut album of French post-Black Metal vanguardists SMOHALLA; the four years since their last proper release (Nova Persei, a 3″ cd limited to a measly 100 copies) […]

French Smohalla is a pretty singular three-piece. There are times when I can’t make myself listen to them, there just isn’t anything there for me to enjoy. Then it turns, and I can’t keep myself […]